The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.